What is the UINT64_C macro in C?

I saw this code:

bool contains_zero_byte(uint64 v) {
  return (((v)-UINT64_C(0x0101010101010101))
        & ~(v)&UINT64_C(0x8080808080808080));
}

What is UINT64_C(0x0101010101010101) doing? UINT64_C is a macro defined as:

// Appends the correct suffix to a 64-bit unsigned integer literal.
#define UINT64_C(c) c ## ULL

The ## token instructs the preprocessor to “paste together” the tokens on either side of it. So UINT64_C(0x0101010101010101) results in the output 0x0101010101010101ULL.

But what is ULL in 0x0101010101010101ULL? I’ll write more about these suffixes in the next post.

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